[comp.sys.amiga] choosing interlace mode for the workbench

js@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora) (10/12/89)

I am helping evaluate an Amiga 2000.  According to the Amiga
documentation, I should be able to get the Workbench to use interlaced
mode by using the Preference Manager.  The docs say I should click on
Yes for that option, save preferences, and restart the Amiga.
Unfortunately it doesn't work--whenever I save preferences, `use
interlace for workbench' is reset to No.

The Amiga is hooked up to a non-Commodore monitor, but the monitor has
no problem displaying interlaced video from applications.

The only thing I can imagine is that the Workbench or the Preference
Manager somehow detects that the monitor is not a 1084 (?), and
assumes that ALL non-Commodore monitors are incapable of interlaced
video, but that sounds like a really stupid "feature", and it's not my
best guess.  Does anyone know what's going on, and how I can turn on
interlace mode in the Workbench?

Please reply via email, since I don't read this newsgroup often.  I
apologize if this question has been raised before.

-j.
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840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) (10/12/89)

Try taking the write-protect tab off your boot disk!!
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js@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora) (10/13/89)

Thanks to everyone who sent me help on this.  Turns out that the problem
was that the Preference Manager was saving to the current partition, which
wasn't the boot partition.  SavePrefs fixed this.	-j.

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Jay Sekora		             |       js@phoenix.princeton.edu
Information Centers Consultant       |                 js@pucc.bitnet
Princeton University	             |         sekora-jay@cs.yale.edu